From January to May 2016, the Pauline International Multimedia Center, Rome, is holding a series of once-a-month biblical animations guided by Fr. Romano Penna on the theme, To Live and Act Like Christians with the Gospel of Christ, based on St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians–a true “magna carta” of Christian freedom. In fact, from the very outset of his ministry, the Apostle insisted on freedom–a word that recurs about 30 times in his Letters. But freedom for what? The answer, Paul says, is very simple: we were liberated by Christ so as to walk under the influence of the Spirit and serve one another in love.
The first meeting of the series awakened keen interest in the Apostle Paul, who was endowed with a forceful, even “warlike,” character–a trait that did not change when he chose to follow Jesus and which, indeed, he placed at the service of the Gospel.
The more than 100 people who attended Fr. Penna’s first conference were fascinated to discover this aspect of the Apostle in the first pages of his Letter to the Galatians and look forward with pleasure to deepening the spiritual and cultural experience opening before them.
